Rewarding your member editors is a surefire way to encourage a habit of repeat contribution and loyalty.

Wetpaint offers a top contributors API that provides all the data you need to display user IDs, display names, profile urls (to link back to your profile page), and avatars for the top 20 contributors on your Injected wiki. Featuring this data in a visually compelling and prominent manner on key pages is a great way to thank folks for doing great work. These displays will also ignite a healthy competitive desire in others to rise in the ranks.

See how NuWuire Investor has showcased user contributions, both editorially and dynamically:

NuWire Investor
Top contributors based on number of edits NuWire Investor has done a fantastic job of using the Wetpaint Injected contributor API to showcase top contributors on their wiki homepage.	Top contributors module on NuWire Wiki
Featured Contributor NuWire highlights a specific member for his or her notable contributions to the site with a dedicated spotlight module.	Shout-out for key contributor
Give credit where credit is due! NuWire also does a great job of surfacing the latest recent contributions — credited to the contributor — on their wiki homepage. This dynamic navigation into user-generated content is a great way to highlight individuals as well as the activity within Injected pages across a site. New pages and recently updated pages showcase content authors
Who are the experts here? Your readers are! At the individual page level, NuWire surfaces all contributors to each article — another great way to encourage and reward authorship!

Flixster
Give your users their 15 minutes of fame! Everyone likes to see his or her name in lights — the movie-enslaved folks at Flixster certainly understand that, so they have created a program whereby their members can volunteer themselves as "Flixster Experts" with respect to particular actors of interest. Experts are showcased on the main actor page as the chief stewards of the actor's wiki.

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